Cross-level sociodemographic homogeneity alters individual risk for completed suicide.

ABSTRACT: Among deaths of despair, the individual and community correlates of US suicides have been consistently identified and are well known. However, the suicide rate has been stubbornly unyielding to reduction efforts, promoting calls for novel research directions. Linking levels of influence has been proposed in theory but blocked by data limitations in the United States. Guided by theories on the importance of connectedness and responding to unique data challenges of low base rates, geographical dispersion, and appropriate comparison groups, we attempt a harmonization of the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) and the American Community Survey (ACS) to match individual and county-level risks. We theorize cross-level sociodemographic homogeneity between individuals and communities,

SUBMITTER: Pescosolido BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7584914 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature